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Examine two poems with contrasting attitudes to war. Which is more effective and why? I have decided to do the two First World War poems, As The Teams Head Brass by Edward Thomas and comparing it to Disabled by Wilfred Owen.  

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Tom Davies Examine two poems with contrasting attitudes to war. Which is more effective and why? I have decided to do the two First World War poems, As The Teams Head Brass by Edward Thomas and comparing it to Disabled by Wilfred Owen. The two poems have similar attitudes to war, although they represent them in different ways. The structure of the two poems is different. Disabled has six stanzas, all of different lengths where as As The Teams Head Brass has only two stanzas the first is short and the second is considerably longer. The rhyme scheme is very different in the two, Disabled has rhyme all the way through, where as there is no obvious rhyme in As The Teams Head Brass. There is a recurring pattern all the way through Disabled, every other line rhymes for instants, "waiting for dark" and two lines later there is "through the park". In Disabled...

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